[Captain Shamrock]

Actually, I would say the steel was deformed into losing its ability to carry the weight of the freeway not melted like a steel smelter. However, the pictures tell the story of how an intensive gas fire can collapse a steel supported structure like a freeway bridge...or a skyscraper! Paging Rosie O'Donnell...Message for Rosie O'Donnell...

[umgud]

The traffic in this area is some of the worst in the state. It will be very bad come Monday.

[BallyBill]

Maybe Rosie can be a guest host on MythBusters. Them guys and their silly tricks using science and stuff. She can teach them the Truth!

[skeptoid]

... fire can collapse a steel supported structure like a freeway bridge...or a skyscraper....

Hey ....Rotten Rosie.... are you catching a clue here??

A section of highway lies burned and crumbled in
Emeryville, Calif., after a tanker carrying gasoline
exploded on Sunday, April 29, 2007. In the resulting
blaze, a section of freeway that funnels traffic onto
the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed.
Thetruck's driver walked away from the scene and called
a taxi, which took him to a nearby hospital with
second-degree burns.
(AP Photo/The Oakland Tribune, Noah Berger)

See the SeattlePI article for a 'related video'.

[Chode]

Oh Woe is me... Why's everybody pickin on me???

[Cicero]

Same thing happened just north of the Bronx some years back, where the interestate comes down into the Major Deegan expressway. A tanker crashed and burned avoiding some idiot that cut him off. It took almost a year before the overpass was restored.

[finnman69]

not to mention, the lightweight bar joists at the WTC were a LOT flimsier than a highway bridge girder built to handle San Francisco earthquakes

[sono]

Is there a pattern to these accidents?

[bert]

The phenomenon is an enginering usage of the word creep.

Creep..... A slow flow of metal when under high temperature or great pressure. Yahoo dictionary.

For the record

[scrabblehack]

I was thinking that jet fuel had a higher heat of combustion than gasoline....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency

has regular gas at 125K BTU/gal,
aviation gas at 120.2K BTU/gal,
jet fuel slightly more, 127.5K-135K BTU/gal.

[LibKill]

That must have been one hot fire. Rush hour will suck around there for a while.

[steve-b]

However, the pictures tell the story of how an intensive gas fire can collapse a steel supported structure like a freeway bridge...or a skyscraper! Paging Rosie O'Donnell...Message for Rosie O'Donnell...
Rosie won't let facts get in the way of her loony rantings.

The moonbats have already explained away this inconvenient truth.